Best Charles Dickens Wisdom
- I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys… Among
- I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… Air
- A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! Body
- I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… Accuracy
- I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. Been
- It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Alone
- The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,… All
- Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… All
- The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… Dangerous
- I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes,… Cold
- The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things… All
- The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… All
- [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. Absorbed
- The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in… All
- It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper… Been
- It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying… Blotted
- The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops… Air
- The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it… Beat
- The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… Adjacent
- I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. Any
- Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Contemplate
- Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the… Accidents
- A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. Elevated
- We must scrunch or be scrunched. Action
- And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as… Believe
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